Attention: Editors and Reporters
Wednesday, 20 November 2024                                                                 

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC/the Commission) North West Provincial Office (NWPO) will continue with its subpoena hearing against the North West Department of Health (NWDoH).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (the Commission) in the Northern Cape Province will be conducting a stakeholder engagement aimed at addressing the state of water and sanitation services in the Northern Cape Province.

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Attention: Editors and Reporters

Today, 19 November 2024, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) through its Free State Provincial Office (FSPO) officially released a report of its inquiry into service delivery at local government level in the Free State Province (Report).

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Today, 19 November 2024, marks World Toilet Day. This day is meant to galvanise awareness of the centrality of dignified sanitation in human lives. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) joins the world in commemorating World Toilet Day, under the global theme “Toilets: A place of peace”.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Tuesday, 19 November 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) North West Provincial Office and Gauteng Provincial Office have been undertaking an inter-provincial monitoring roadshow from 18-22 November 2024 to conduct monitoring and advocacy activities between the two provinces.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Monday, 18 November 2024

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) embarks on community engagements in Emadlangeni and Dannhauser Local Municipalities within Amajuba District on 18 - 21 of November 2024.

Attention: Editors and Reporters
Monday, 18 November 2024

On Tuesday, 19 November 2024, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will officially release its inquiry report into the state of service delivery at local Government level in the Free State Province.

13 October 2024

This milestone year in the life of democratic South Africa behoves us to have difficult conversations about the unfinished business of decolonisation, national unity, and what it would truly take to inculcate a culture of human rights based on a just and egalitarian society. These conversations would be incomplete if we did not debate the continuing use of racial categories by the state.

Tshepo Madlingozi, Sihle Booi, A Tumbo.

14 August 2024

The average grade 8 learner today was born in 2010, 16 years into the Democratic era, and has had no real experience of apartheid. These learners are not alone in this though, the 2022 Census suggests that there are more people in South Africa today (30 million) that were born after apartheid than there are those who lived through, or experienced apartheid. Despite this, racism continues to stretch its reach to younger generations, like an infectious illness that is being transferred either through education or socialisation from generation to generation.

Sanitation is dignity, according to the slogan of South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS).

16 November 2024

The slogan is true and apposite because without proper hygienic sanitation, the dignity and sense of being a human are compromised. The DWS is not alone in recognising the centrality and importance of sanitation in living a dignified life.